Following my last post, here’s another handy new thing to do in Leopard. I never used this in Tiger (MacOS X.4) because it was not practical (besides being possible), but I swear it was usable by the time.
Auto-mounting remote shared server (Samba, NFS, AFS) wherever I want, without being stuck with a dead Finder.app whenever I lost wifi network, I change room or my mac goes to sleep (yep I used to have some problems with this).
So now how to do this ? NetInfo is gone so where can I define my automount points, remember when I said NetInfo is dead for the best ?

-fstype=smbfs : specify the kind of filesystem to use, I only cover samba here.

://username:passwordremote_server_name_or_ip/shared_folder_name@ : this is the informations to connect to the remote server. Change username and password with yours, specify remote_server_name_or_ip to reflect the way you access the machine and set shared_folder_name to the name of the remote folder.

Notice just like /etc/hosts that Leopard seems to only detect a change if a line is added/removed, so anytime you make a change that does not change the line number in the file add a comment (#) at the beginning or end to force a reload.

Late in the day, but here goes.
I’m new @ Leopard. Our imac is used by several users. The shared storage is a NAS device providing Samba or FTP protocols only. When I follow the recipe above, I find the access rights to the now visible shared folders are all 700 (IOW, only root can access them, although all users see them at the mount points. That’s the last piece of that puzzle. Thanks for getting me in the ballpark. Any suggestion as to the next step?